Events:
July 5, 2013

Dwan directed Mary Pickford and Shirley Temple at their heights, and Ronald Reagan in the twilight of his career, but he’s most fondly remembered by film historians as a prolific problem-solver who adroitly handled whatever came his way.

What do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Thomas Jefferson, and David Ben-Gurion have in common? More than we might think, according to a remarkable new exhibition about the Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th-century BC Babylonian text praising Cyrus the Great.

On the NYRblog, Ian Buruma writes: “Hamaya’s distinctive documentary photographs can be usefully contrasted with his compatriot Kansuke Yamamoto’s modernist photographic collages…. A world that is now lost forever still lives in his photographs. ”